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animuchan

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animuchan
·há 6 dias·discuss
That, and filing false claims should be incredibly punishable, like beyond all proportion.

One disgusting CEO landing behind the bars over frivolous DMCA takedown would improve things dramatically, like for humanity (or a hefty chunk thereof that's browsing the web, anyway).
animuchan
·há 9 dias·discuss
OK yeah I didn't know they stopped allowing to root. Normal levels of DRM then, my mistake, you're right.
animuchan
·há 9 dias·discuss
Neat, thanks for this correction! Interesting, an entire new programming language.
animuchan
·há 9 dias·discuss
It's Android but without Google's services, there's an alternative app store.

The irony of Chinese vendors providing a breath of fresh low-DRM air.
animuchan
·há 9 dias·discuss
You will not. Have a nice day though! Now with more time to spend on positive things. :)
animuchan
·há 10 dias·discuss
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animuchan
·há 10 dias·discuss
That group is against our political freedoms, so we're naturally against their political freedoms. Are we just doing tribalism and then intellectualizing? (I don't know what the answer is, but I fear it's a resounding "yup".)
animuchan
·há 11 dias·discuss
Yep -- and it's good.

Before: customer pays fines for bad security, rolled into the price of the offering.

After: customer pays for actual good security, rolled into the price of the offering.

If the customer doesn't care, no change. If the customer cares (and let's low key assume PII is important) -- they see net gain from this change.
animuchan
·há 11 dias·discuss
This thread reads as an example of anything BUT plurality of opinion -- most of the people here never in their lives considered that the country in question has political discourse at all, and what's going on in there politically, so no opinion was ever present.

Furthermore, consider that the opinion-like discourse is clearly performative. We all know what the correct virtue signaling looks like, and we know that we need to ruin every person not doing the correct virtue signaling.

So it's less of a plurality-of-opinion situation, and more of a direct-democracy situation: a lynch mob.

(Not saying it's good or bad btw -- not my circus, not my monkeys. Just dishonest to say we love some sort of plurality while doing this I think.)
animuchan
·há 11 dias·discuss
I wonder if by this thread's logic, it is now my turn to virtue signal as if I'm leaving Mullvad as a customer, because now you said that don't like someone else's freedom of conscience, and I value freedom of conscience.

Such a bad place we're in: people say they value "freedom", but then you can't choose you own political representation without being witch-hunted to death by the same "freedom" group.

(I honestly think that the perfect response in this case would be to support the cofounder, if anything, to make their own choices, and refuse to hate on the person's political leaning. But alas, the chains of freedom are super heavy.)
animuchan
·há 11 dias·discuss
Yes please! Making PII leaks an expense (like rent and cloud costs) means it's paid by the customer.

I strongly believe we should distinguish the price of doing the operation (aka rent) and the price of doing crime (ideally, jail).
animuchan
·há 12 dias·discuss
This is probably the most charitable explanation humanly possible.

Surely for this specific example of managerial stupidity it just is, but I mean more generally, it's a beautiful posting.

I aspire to have this much misplaced belief in any humans at all, let alone CEOs.
animuchan
·mês passado·discuss
Personally I'm (vaguely) anti-AI because I'm made to interface with it a lot.

Every time I open my editor, there's another colorful popup about some AI feature or other, and it's never what I want. Product people don't seem to understand that nobody wants ads in their editor, no matter how animated and HDR.

And I use all of the AI, to be clear, and surely it's a brilliant tool. But the fatigue is also real.

Which is why I want every big AI player to catastrophically fail -- not out of spite or anything, but because it will holistically improve on my current state of being. And the product people will need to learn some profession so probably will stop with the ads, too.

I want to think it's not an anti-AI stance really, but pro-user, in some real sense.
animuchan
·mês passado·discuss
And in the end the big reveal is, it was a dude in VR all along, piloting the dumb things remotely. Every single time, without exception.
animuchan
·mês passado·discuss
This is why I'm thankful for Chinese LLM research. They'll keep us honest.
animuchan
·mês passado·discuss
Absolutely this, I'm the same as you.

And I'm just afraid this is what cognitive decline feels like from inside the deteriorating mind.
animuchan
·mês passado·discuss
From what I'm aware of -- not manslaughter. Compelled suicide or what's it called is substantially different, you always want to serve the sentence on this and not murder. (Not legal advice of course.)
animuchan
·mês passado·discuss
Well, it's entirely lawful until proven otherwise in court. So 100% clean behavior from this POV.
animuchan
·mês passado·discuss
For most of the users on HN, the answer to "is bribe legal in your country?" would be a resounding "yup".

US regulates over-the-table political bribes. Corporate political influence is functionally bribe-like, a reciprocal influence economy.
animuchan
·mês passado·discuss
I see the point, but nobody in their right mind would call a mere text message "please delete your work" to be malware, much like telling someone "please die" is very very different from attempted manslaughter.